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LACHIE MCDONALD, Ďaily Mail For East reporter, year-after-wor survey of the other half of the world as it marches

along the road back,

Over The Orient, The Rising Sun Climbs Again

favoured

stolen that evening, almost from under his nose.

All over Manila the gossip is mainly about impudent hold-ups and robberies. This disrespect for law and order is easily the that most obvious contribution

It is startling, after a' 14,000- miles investigation flight through ten Pacific and Far-Eastern coun- tries still disorganised by the im- pact of the Japanese war, to re- turn to Japan and And it the rationed during the bitterly cold in the main shopping street of most peaceful and progressive period when I was in Melbourne, Manila and lost it to a pickpocket

and even

was before he could re-entor his jooy radio-listening country in the whole Far East.

few hours daily. Another officer Here there are fewer signs of limited to a

had his jeep At his long-delayed installa- starvation than in the back streets Strikes had cut the coal stocks

of Shanghai or Saigon.

to a dangerous level, and ordinary Warden of the Cinque

Hammers aro

ringing every people were groaning under cheer- Ports, Mr. Churchill reminded where from daylight to dark, cas estrictions.

The housing shortago is a shrul the world that the English Chan-woven days weekly, as new build- nel can no longer be the hul-ings rise from, the ashes of the political issue in both of these

Pacific countries. wark for freedom in Europe." old.

New Zealand bonats Stare which are American brains, The age that was typified in the making the Allied occupation so duced houses that look well, but achome which han actually pro meliaeval ceremonial lingers on successful, only in its pageantry. We have passed from the days when the Warden had in his charge the security of the narrow seas, and the ports of the South Coast furnished, and manned the ships that built on Empire. Yet that era is a glorious memory, and Dover, with the scars of battle still visible in its wrecked build- ings, may feel pride in the part it played in resisting the latest assault on freedom.

now

also reshaping Are

on

away

from

the

entire electrical systems, which the Japanese gutted or allowed to fall into disrepair.

In Singapore I looked vainly for hard-drinking Colonial ad- ministrators and planters. Today that place is "tentata!" compared with Manila, Salgon, or Sydney.

Black Market

While prices are still several

hundred per cent, higher than pro- war in Hongkong and Singapore, British officials are fighting Black Market conditions rowo strenu ously and effectively than the Chinese and Filipinos, or even the Americans in Japan.

Hongkong is closing down abops caught dealing in Black Market goods, and Singapore has opened to save "People's Restaurants" native workers from the exorbit ant prices asked by local food

have their own tenacious Indus- I similar stories in Manila, Singa.mo cheerfully round the roulette wharf facilities.

Japan has made to the countries the Filipino politicians, they just occupied by her troops. As for Japan in such a way that it can still too many Now Zealandera, don't seem to care.

Manila Gambles hardly help but re-emerge, at least especially returned Service men.

The only two air-cooled sane economically, as the strongest na-Tho Australian housing need tuaries I found in steaming Manila

vally socking homes. tion in the Orlent.

American exports attached

the executive offices at shops. more noute in the bigger cities, were ta

factories General MacArthur's headquarters where war

attracted Malacanan Palace, whore Pres!-

Singapore, like Manila, is hav- are helping the Japanese to side- thousands of additional workers. dent Manuel Hoxe now relgtis, ing difiguity in retting oversens You just cannot get houses or flats and a sumptuous gambling house ships unloaded, and this means step some of the worst postwar

a fow blocks evils

Chinese, unless you pay go-betweens for besetting

urgently for materials needed Filipinos, and Indo-Chinese, who advance information likely palaco.

rebufiding are delayed longer than pay heavy

"Gambling is illegal, but many desirable. Freightera

GATE

at both for the most part are floundering vacancies, and then

own steam key money,

cople I met at official functions places are held up for from 17 along under their Added to the

Manila Potholes.

Malacanan subsequently grees to 23 days through shortage, of advantage of thin

in Ma the Japanese And house-hunters tell you ed skilled direction,

tables.

Howeyer, Singapore, like Hong- Reassuring havens of political

kong, already has new British try, and the result is that our old pore, Hongkong, and Shanghai.

commercial The Manilans haven't done much and

stability are cars, heavy engineering equip- Allies in the race for recovery. enemy is outstripping our former

Lo make their city livable. The Hongkong and Singapore, which ment. and other British-muda and most samo pot-holes ACAT

the main British brains, honesty, and plain goods.

belping througli | Last month Hongkong again striking impression of the whole streets as existed 17 months ago, hard work are

almost journey.

but now the holes are wider and the worst of the post-war dangers, turned round

Remember this next time you read ocean-going ships as in peace-tims Thousands of Filipinos today some sneer about British exploit despite the fact that the occupy

Fac-Eastern and úrive them ers idling, on

vering Japanese stole the chicts and drive jeeps.

other wharf facilities. housebuilding, or I have heard a great deal of furiously; they haven't time for andas, roadwork any inglination to clear the rubble this sort of alander in recent years side from Americans, and oven Aus- still obstructing the city

tralians: it simply isn't trie walks.

Today there le more electricity in Singapore and Hongkong than there was in Melbourne a few weeks ago-yot, since last Septem- 'One afternoon I was with an ber. Britons in both Singapore and officer who bought a fountain-pen Hongkong lieve had to restore the

This is the

Arst

In Common

The second is that you in Britain have this in common with people everywhere in the Pacific Far East: You all want houses or aome sort of roof.

In that "new age" of which Mr. Churchill spoke, incidentally on the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Atlantic Charter, the statesmen of the world still grope rather uncertainly for the means to secure peace. The ideal is in all minds, but its achieve ment is beset by the doubts and misgivings that are a legacy of re- cent experience. During the New Zealand, much the gayest- rainful search for those combina-painted and cleanest place of all, tions that are "to save the future shares with Australia the best- peace and happiness of the warld" stocked larders along the great we have still to keep our powder axe northward to Japan. dry. The very fact that the atom homb, the rocket and the aeta- plane have weakened the old sense of security that the Channel gave makes it more imperative that we shall stand on guard. Men may share Mr. Churchill's refusal to

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WOT, NO WATER!

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The majority are concentrating un stealing what they can frein the United States Government and fleecihe unwary American soldiers.

British Insurance Legislation

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Solvency

Initial security is ensured, in

as many

Shanghai Shudders Shanghai, now under Chineso control, in giving shipping men the shudders. Benldes labour troubles," common today throughout the Far East, there is a "squeeze" going Chinese smilingly is a "political difficulty. on which the admit

to shipping delay's and business difficulties. Anyhow, it adds to

Saigon, open only to shipping, gives a disquieting im pression to the visitor. To see the skinny, ragged, and sullen people in the tree-lined streets you would never guess that Indo-China is a food-exporting country.

French

Frenchmen in Saigon scem cynical and dispirited, and thero's a disturbing air of uncertainty.

Similar post-war stresses and are evident in many places traing

even on tiny Morotai Island, in

The British Insuranco

Definite acceptance of this prin- Com-

ahau hot panies have been, and are still, ciple by Parliament will, I hope, the new legislation by the require. Insurance business pioneers in the field of IDsurance set an example and do auch, notent that a Company and they now transact all classes only to emphasise the strongh of commence

business Brush assurance to, our foreign without at least a Paid-up Capital *0,000 ond continuing and kinds of Insurance

clients, but also to give a truer of in territories throughout the

world.

security is achieved by the x- Their growth has been conditioned, understanding of the fundamen but not retarded, by British In- tal principles of assurance usi quirement, applying also to exist the Halmahera Group, where the ing Companies, that free reserves Dutch to-day are more militant must be maintained at a certain than they were for most of the surance legislation, based brond- ness." (Sir Stafford Cripps).

minimum in amount or in pro-Pacific war, ly on the dual principle that (1) development of the business both It follows in natural sequono portion, to the business undertaken. In Army camps taken over from at home and overseas is best car that the protection of policy.

In the now Act, therefore, the Americans and Australians. Dute Tesaured by freedom so far as prac- Lolders should, in the legislation,

ticable

principle of requiring deposits bugies blare before dawn-and on enact be dealt with globally. from restrictive

I watched and of the law

The (ii) Icents

14 made for the Dutch and Australian soldiers In- Companies provide and provision

programmes by adequate publication of details of plying oneral solvency laws ap. with the Government is abandoned two successive nights the business so transacted will for the winding up of a Company return of existing deposits to Com terrupt cinema

which

conform to the personal fights. furnish the beat anfeguard against which is unable to pay its debts, panics unsound trading.

but, in order to avoid the pos- higher standard of "solvency."""

The following announcement of sibility of loss or detriment to

glicyholders which a condition of the President of the Board of solvency would entail, the Bri. Trade in the House of Commons war supplies to Indonesia, and

ber, 1945, 5

Australian soldiers many worthy

would bluntly scornful about the tardy tish Insurance Companies: bave, on the 18th November by careful underwriting and con servative financing during the perhaps be proper in this conner-arrival of Dutch forces in war-

laform the House of the time Borneo. passing of gonerations, accumulat- tion

This is 3 glimpse of conditions, ed an adequate volume of free to attitude of the Government to- serve over and above outstanding wards the future of British in-after a year of peace, in some of of trading abilities.

Japancae.

The imposition of water trictions announced today and taking effect tomorrow suggests caution carried to an extreme. The reasons advanced for the decision will certainly not carry much con- viction to those whose memories

go back further than 1945 and are able to recall that our reser- voirs have had to support a popu- lation for larger than we have to- day. With the principle of in- telligent control of our water-re- sources, there will, of course, be

Within theso principles,the enactment of the Assurance Co- panies Act, 1946, represents new and important development of the pattern of the legislation.

The 1948 Act-

Acknowledges the inherently International and comprehen- sire charactor of Insurance.

interesta Protects the

by provisions policyholders

surance business. The Govern

Dutch Bitter The Dutch are still bitter about Australian delay in shipping post-

posits with the High Court for liabilities (Inci assets over injurics. It is the desire of the great American base.

security of policyholders.

International And

Character

Comprehensive

Of Insurance

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

Bru

no quarrel, and the public gen- erally will approve mild restric-

The most cheering thing every- The establishment of additional ment have no intention of inter- the countries disorganised by the which virtually will eliminate free reserves is now incorporated fering with the transaction of in- tions over a long period as op-

the practical possibility of in- in the law. The 1946 Act pro-surance business by private enter where is the obvious sincerity of posed to a policy of feast and

solvency.

vides that any Company carrying prise save to the limited extent to the Anglo-American struggle to famine, especially from a benign Establishes aafeguards

on General business must be more which insurance at home may make peace more permanent. That,

affected by the existing have be

ing and the fact that the Americans or irresponsible than just solvent; it must have government which apparently Against hasty

personal continue to strengthen Okinawa, rests on the assumption that all Company promotion.

and maintain additional reserves, propu relating to

ess of

social insurance ail

and

Industrial which it is safe to bet will remain Abolishes the system of de- being the excess good children should have had

inter αξίες,

Government that insurance should Highways criss-cross the island, their baths and be in bed by ten

and reserves for unexpired risks

hills have given way to airflelda. p.m. It is difficult to resist such

provisions for unpaid claims hat be in the future as in the past

international the port takes more ships than nid-world charm and our protest

not including liabilities to Share dealt with on an holders) to the extent of 260,000 basis and as business of an inter- pre-war. Okinawa is a necessary

insurance. will be as mild as the restrictions. Nevertheless, unless there exists a

or, if greator, 10 cent. of the net national character."

from

General further reason which has not been

premium income disclosed, we rather think that the

Marine, Aviation and Transit business in the preceding financial

not hitherto! year, to Insurance business,

stringent Colony could have afforded

This now and more risk a further month, without suf- subject to the provisions of the

now ih-standard of "solvency" ia coa with legislation, in earlier

Insurance Company fering any qualms of conscience M

cluded, so that all the major which each about living dangerously.

classes of Insurance business come transacting General business must within the field of the legislation. comply, failing which the Com- The Act makes no essential dis-pany will be deemed legally to be tinction between business written insolvent and, therefore, liable at home and business wri.len over- be wound up.

The effect is described as fal- seas, nor between British Com

by the President of the parica

Board's or external Companies

Board of TradeThe The army transport Bellrin- operating in the country.. In

of the purpose is so to use the powers President ger, with only a 86-man crew on

words of the

(Sir Board of Trade

Stafford as to anticipate and prevent any board, grounded on Miami but the Coastguard re-

reor near Crippa) in the House of Commone insolvency arising" and "it will

Ce 12th November, 1ron

make Assurance doubly sure," ported that it is in no im-

Safeguards Against The Dominion and mediato danger of, breaking up. Companies in this country will Hasty Or Irresponsible

The 8,800-ton craft is report-

receive exactly the same treate

Company Promotion ed to be taking on "Bome

mont as the United Kingdom

The original and trus. purpose water." A tug is en route to

Companies. If they maintain the

aftof zod-deposits is to procure standard pull her off.

Teachable! solvaner required for their own that no Company shall commence

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